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Doing my last hatches of the year. First I have 3 silkie eggs, 3 store bought eggs from some local farmer, and 4 mixed breed bantam eggs. 10 eggs in total, due to hatch around 04.05 - 05.05. They're under my broody hen Okakley, so I'll be calling it Oakley's batch. Second I have 6 silkie eggs...

Does this egg look fertilized? I can try to get photos in different lighting if this isn’t clear enough.

This is day 1. I gave the eggs to the broody a few hours ago. The nest didn't have enough bedding which I assume is why one egg broke. I put in new bedding but some of the eggs got yolk all over them. They're dry now, a bit sticky. I'm just wondering if I can leave them for the next 21 days or...

This is a thread for my 2024 chicks. Usually, I try to take weekly pictures of each chick to track growth and development, so why not make a thread where I can post them? As the chicks grow I'll comment on what I think about them, which I may keep, and make guesses on whether they are pullets or...

This year I thought I would try starting my first hatch-a-long. You're welcome to choose an egg to root for. If you'd also like to name your egg, I have naming themes that should be followed. This year the themes are: Silkies: Greek mythology and Percy Jackson related names. Project chicks...

Does this only apply to shipped eggs? Mine have been sitting at 13°C - 16°C for 1day - 2+weeks (depending on when they were laid). I'm wondering if I should move them inside where it's about 20°C a day before putting them in the incubator? They won't go bad if they sit in 20°C for 24h, will...

Preparing for this year's hatching season. This year I will be hatching eggs from my younger pullets and I fully expect most eggs to not develop considering they lay about one egg a day on average, so by the time I'll have enough to fill the incubator only about 7-14 out of 30 will have decent...

Silkie eggs are supposed to be white or cream according to the standard of perfection. My growout pullets just started laying and the eggs look a bit too dark for a silkie to me. What do we think? Now I'm not sure if the girls laying these are my own bred girls or the ones I bought as hatching...

I've noticed black birds tend to have some white feathers in their wings or anywhere else when they're young. Sometimes my silkies hatch with pink tips on their toes as well, but I don't know if that's related to the white feathers. Either way, they usually grow out of it within a couple of...

The temperatures have dropped in the negatives recently and I'm worried my 3 silkie pullets may be too cold. It's usually around -1°C to -7°here. One night it went down to -10°C. That night I brought the 3 pullets into my garage. I already found one pullet dead last week. My concern is that...

I'd love to breed some lavender silver penciled chickens with black heads (which will be barely noticeable with the lavender, but still.) and I want to know if there is a name for that color or is it just called lavender silver penciled (or in my case, lav. silver penciled with charcoal)? Thanks!

I found these pictures while scrolling through pinterest. They are not mine. Credit to "Pekin Bantams RSA" I guess. I was looking at some bantam cochin pictures and came across these. Would this be lavender silver penciled?

I came home and immediately noticed one hen was acting weird. Her crop is full and hard as a rock and she's making weird gagging movements every five seconds or so. She was fine when I left this morning. I feed pellets. For the past 2 days I was feeding them mashed potatoes to diversity their...

Opened the coop today to see a dead pullet right by the door. She had some blood near her neck and upon further inspection I saw 3 tiny little holes in her neck. I'm assuming it's a predator that killed her. What could've done it and how do I prevent it from coming back?

I posted this in random ramblings, but I was told I'd have better luck here. Hey! Looking for some quotes from books on chicken breeding or something of the sort. If it's a quote from a book, please include the book's title and/or author. I need this for a project I'm writing and I...

Hey! Looking for some quotes from books on chicken breeding or something of the sort. If it's a quote from a book, please include the book's title and/or author. I need this for a project I'm writing and I unfortunately don't own any books on this. The topic is breeding purebred chickens to...

I have a plan and a single pen for 2 different breeding projects. The same hens (I might take away some hens if I'm not looking for chicks from them from a specific roo), 2 diifferent roos. Let's call them roo1 and roo2. I want to collect/set eggs from roo1 in early February. I would seperate...

I just got 2 new budgies and one looks sick. He is constantly panting, breathing with an open mouth, sometimes with a whistling or clicking sound, along with tail bobbing. I have 3 other budgies at home, but I am not yet home. I'll be going home with the 2 new birds in 2 days. My concern is the...

Hoping to find out the color mutation of these two beautiful birds. So far I only have photos in 2 different lightings, which is at the store and and at home in a pretty dark room. I'll try to get some photos in natural light tomorrow. For the gender: I know the greywing is a male, but I'm...

Moore head is the gene that causes a black head in (most commonly) partridge chickens, right? I believe I have a few. I have 2 blue silkies with silver leakage or silver partridge or something like that and 2 silver penciled project hens. For simplicity I'll call them silver penciled, but they...